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Mandarin: zi4
Definitions
  1. 1 letter
  2. 2 symbol
  3. 3 character
  4. 4 word M: 个gè [个]
  5. 5 courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China
  6. 6 to betroth a girl
  7. 7 wordage
  8. 8 calligraphy works
  9. 9 contract
  10. 10 # adapted from cc-cedict
Other Readings
字
[[a word]] | jih faa 字花 — an illegal gambling game involving guessing whic
Words containing 字
字母系統
alphabet, alphabetic system
金字招牌
gold standard;gold brand (well established);gold-lettered signboard;a vainglorio
正字法階段
orthographic stage
羅馬數字
Roman numerals
大字本
[printing] large-character edition; large-type edition
起字容
to reveal something about someone (usually big secrets); to dig up some informat
人字拖
flip-flops; y-shaped sandals [Syn.] 人字拖鞋
十字路口兒
intersection, right-angle junction of two streets (like the character 十)
三個字
three characters or words | fifteen minutes
個字
five minutes
八個字
forty minutes | eight words or characters
十字架
triazolam (drug)
新字體
the new character form, Shinjitai, which is used in Japan
全體字
Traditional characters (term used in Hong Kong)
字鎖
a combination lock
抄字典
flip through a dictionary [colloquial] | to search
字母順序概率
probability of letter sequences
阿拉伯數字
[n] Arabic numbers
派字歌
a record of generation names
得個睇字
only good for looking at but of no practical use in reality; something that one
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